The Glade 4.0

It's mostly the lack of good material (he killed his screamy scene with Anakin at Mustafar, though), but he isn't well-served by anything. None of the Jedi come off well in the prequels, though. Every one of 'em who isn't Obi-Wan comes off as a giant dick.

See, I always thought they needed to give him an honorary Oscar for managing to not suck while delivering those god-awful lines.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Touché. "I have seen a security hologram of him...killing younglings." *covers mouth to hide snickering*

While I don't agree about the "any actor other than McDiarmid" part, it seems your time in my head has lead to something rubbing off on you...

And, yes. The Mustafar duel in Revenge of the Sith standing alone is a better movie than the entirety of Return of the Jedi. It is the perfect microcosm of the entire relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan, and is my prime exhibit A whenever somebody tries to tell me that the prequel lightsaber fights are soulless, empty calories of flashiness.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

^This

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

I love anything to do with the Emperor in ROTJ too much to agree. Especially with the "I have the higher ground. You know, all six inches of high ground! Don't try jumping, because it will fail. Forget about the fact that Darth Maul truly did once have the 'high ground' with me and I jumped and that turned out ok. And I didn't even have a lightsaber. In fact, just don't think about this situation at all."

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I recently rewarched the movies as well. There are a few cringeworthy moments in the dialogue of RotJ... Perhaps signs we missed 32 years ago that Lucas was a hack, but overall the movie was still pretty good.

To compare with RotS, however... Which actually had an okay story, and tremendous action... every line anybody uttered was painful. In my mind, the great action scenes alone cannot overcome that. This wasn't like Return of the Jedi, with its two or three cringeworthy moments. This was an entire movie of mentally pleading, "please don't talk again!"

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Remind me never to ever discuss Star Wars on this board ever again. Some of the most notorious troll communities on the internet are less negative than you guys.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

For what it's worth, most of the people here who hated the prequels have so far loved The Force Awakens.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Heh...

I loved this damn movie so much.

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Raell Kromwell

Dittooooooo.

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Holy shitsnacks!

What the **** did I just witness?

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

It appears that Disney may make back almost 50% of their investment in Lucasfilm from their profit on TFA box office receipts alone.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Being able to laugh at silly things is not the same as dishing out the troll hate. My comments should always be taken in the light as Family Guy's Star Wars movies. They poked all sorts of fun at Star Wars at shed tons of light on the problems. But they did so out of a place of love, not hate.

I have said here, for years and years and years, that the prequels don't bug me as much as they do the average fan. In fact, I think Jar Jar is just fine and not a part of the biggest issues I had with TPM.

It's when you can't laugh and admit that some of the things you love can be silly, is when problems arise. For me it's just not worth living life that way.

I will absolutely poke fun of Boba Fett and how he really wasn't very good at his job since all he did was hide in some trash, follow a ship, and then call the Imperials that Han & Co. were on Bespin and they needed to come do his job for him in terms of capturing. But then I will turn around and also always be the first to say that I thought Boba Fett was cool and a badass.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Nothing to do with the movie but it seems like a good place to put this.

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Raell Kromwell

I thought that the plot in Force Awakens was too much a rehash of the originals, instead of something that would make more sense. It seemed like the entire purpose of all the plot elements was to facilitate various tropes. I was hoping for an epic movie that would capture my imagination like the other Star Wars movies did. So I was disappointed.

WTF? A german commercial made me all emotional! Germans themselves don't even get emotional!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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They have a high natural tolerance. German emotional commercials are like Russian liquor -- devastating to foreigners who have no clue how in over their head they are.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Hummm, I have been known to have a feeling or two at times.

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Raell Kromwell

Sprichst du deutsch?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The correct arrangement for the words you want to use would be: Du sprichst Deutsch. You speak German. As a statement. As a question it would be: Sprechen sie Deutsch?

Also, all nouns in German are capitalized. All. German does not distinguish between proper and common nouns for capitalization.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Actually, they may be on close enough terms that she can use the familiar du in place of the formal Sie. It's just that normally, when querying someone if they speak German, you don't know the person and thus rely on formality.

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I would agree with this mostly. However, some of the criticism - whether we're talking about this movie, another movie, one or the other trilogy, whatever - is hyperbolic to the point of being reverse-fanboisim. Yeah we get it - the prequel trilogy is not as good as it should have been. It is also not nearly as bad as some people are making it out to be.

This movie is also good.

The reason I know this is I have a 9-year-old that assures me they were good, and the originals were good when I was 9. Star Wars is about being 7, 8, 9, 10, maybe 11 years old. If kids that age say they are good, they are good. Adults do not get to argue.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."